Premodcast

Fresh off his top 8 at the Midwest Premodern Championship Robin Lundh stops by to make a 3-peat appearance on the Premodcast, and give Mike the chance to discuss Hermit FEB on his own podcast! Bear with us as we attempt to explain this confusing monster of a deck. Congrats to all the winners and attendees of the Midwest Championship and thanks to Brian Kowal and Mike Heup for putting it on.

With the changing season lots of awesome premodern events coming up. The boys talk a little more Lobstercon and give their Exodus top 5. Good luck to all those attending the upcoming events!

Lobstercon 2023 was a resounding success! And here to discuss it we have the winner himself, Brian Selden. A mere 25 years after being the Magic World Champion with Rec Sur, gifting our community a plethora of discount gold-bordered staples, he received another copy of Survival of the Fittest. This time stamped with North American Premodern Champion. Big thank you to everyone who had a hand, no matter how small, in making Lobstercon great. And a huge thank you to Jared and Dave for pulling it off yet again.

As June is upon us the preparations are in high gear for Lobstercon. The crew talk to Premodern master, mainstay, and all-around good guy Tom Metelsky about what to expect and what to be surprised by. And for those who can't make it to LC there is abundant meta discussion you won't want to miss.

And we are back with an interview episode of Premodern staple Patrick Burt! If you played or played against a green-white land-based value deck you probably have Patrick to thank (or curse). He goes over the ins and outs and all the what have yous, enjoy!

Just in time for the Spring Fling we go over the 2022 meta analysis provided by Fede Rico (thank you!). As well as the freshly crunched numbers (thank you Jared) on the 2023 meta so far. Also below is the link for Tom Metelsky's daughter's go fund me, please check it out!
https://www.gofundme.com/f/x93j8-milas-spinal-surgery?
2023 meta spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GLzmtUQWYzYNKYnokm6oq8ki24iqg7LbN3p15QDZ5nA/edit?usp=sharing

With the genius altering of the Rock by Lanny Huang the gents analyze it and other classic archetypes that can and have been re-vamped. A bottomless pit of possibilities and a topic that will likely be revisted. Then with the 25th anniversary of Stronghold a top 5 is in order.

The premodcast is back with a guest episode. We interviewed Will Hirst after his incredible run of multiple first place and top finishes in the past 4 months.

Welcome to 2023! The gang goes over the meta from 2022 highlighting the top 4 in each monthly. Pop the champagne and enjoy!

And we are back to go over the latest in Premodern. Lots of major tournaments over the past month both IRL and online. As well as a return of the deck tech segment: Counters, Burns, and Broken Things. Mike gushes about the Mono Blue Dreadnought deck that has been taking the community and top 8s by storm.

Howdy all! We are back with a catch up on a number of events and happenings in the premodern world. Jared's journey to LA for the West Coast Premodern Championship. Then onto a top 5 of one of the best sets in Premodern....Tempest.

The Finale!

The Council of the Greens and the Crowning of Aegon II

All Hail Viserys First of His Name!

The boys welcome Aaron Dicks back to the states fresh off his almost top 8 at Euro-Champs. If you didn't know the largest in-person Premodern tournament (so far) recently occurred you're in luck! You get an in person retelling of the weekend by Aaron, the sole American to attend. You can find the full stream on www.twitch.tv/wakwakmtg . Congrats to Marc Eric Vogt for his win! We also talk about the big news of the day. . . Show and Tell is officially unbanned in Premodern!! Lastly, one of our Premodern brothers was hit badly by Hurricane Ian. If you've ever had the pleasure to play against Ryan Grodzinski you know he is one of the true representatives of everything the Premodern community is about. Here's the link to he and his family's go fund me.
https://gofund.me/f10a8786

Funerals, dragon-taming, fights and eyes!

Sorry for the delay! But we are back and raring to go with a massive content-filled episode for the new era the show has brought us to!

In b4 Thursday! The gang analyzes the 24 decklists submitted by the 8 players in this spikiest of Premodern Showdown Series.

Make love not war!

Hunts, hangovers, and suicide missions!

And we are back after an August hiatus. Bringing more of that Premodern audio content you crave! This time the gang talks about the players recently announced in the upcoming PSS4. No decklists yet to pore over but such big names we had plenty to go on, episode on the decklists to follow!

Jared and Mike return to discuss the 2nd episode of House of the Dragon. Dragons, marriages, politics, and crabs!

Hello everyone! And welcome to the first episode of Jared and Mike's spinoff Game of Thrones podcast focusing on the new show House of the Dragon. For Premodcast listeners, sorry but there is no Magic content, but for fans of A Song of Ice and Fire there is tremendous content. Enjoy!

We coming in hot with a fresh Premodcast drop! In between vacations we did an hour record to talk about how the meta is looking these days as well as a...let's say a look at the wild June monthly finals won by Rich Shay over Jens Jaeger on Turtle Splash. Then Mike and Andrew talk with Ken Meyer Jr. Apologies again for timeliness on this one, we recorded it back in early May but had some technical difficulties and couldn't get it out before Lobstercon. Still a great interview with a classic Magic artist!

Guess who's back! After a bit of hiatus premodcast is right back at ya with more premodern content. We catch up a bit on the last few months since lobstercon and then do a Weatherlight top 5. Turns out it's a weird but weirdly good set!

Welcome back to all those who made it out to Lobstercon! Jared and DFB put on a fantastic weekend and now for your listening pleasure Jared and Andrew go over all the ins and outs and glorious details of Lobstercon 2022. Sidenote: Andrew's mic got damaged during the stream at lobstercon and doesn't sound great.

Today we are joined by Bryan Manolakos host of the immensely popular All Tings Considered podcast. An old school fixture but he also does episodes on Premodern if you haven't checked it out definitely do! We discuss the upcoming Lobstercon and to round out the Old School premodern crossovers, a top 5 on Old School cards we think could fit in Premodern.

We have another great guest episode! Brian Kowal and Michael James Heup join us to talk about the 47 person Premodern Open they ran in Madison at Brian's store Misty Mountain Games.

We have a get, Jeff Laubenstein famed Premodern era Magic artist joined Andrew and Mike to talk about his experiences making magic art, and to plug the upcoming Lobstercon where he'll be in attendance. The guys discuss the history of mulligans as well, and our takes on the different rules. (P.S. I later realized it was PeeWee Herman not Alan Cumming don't come after me!) 

Premodcast is back after a long January for a brand new episode. Fair chunk of general premodern talk plenty of events upcoming and ongoing. Then a top 5 of Mirage block's middle child....Visions.

Happy New Year everyone! We welcome Gabe Farkas to the pod after his second place finish in the November monthly to talk about, among other things, the many different quality black removal spells. Many of you know Gabe in the Premodern community for his encyclopedic knowledge of cards you've never heard of from the format, as well as his suite of brews some of which have become format staples. Between those factors as well as his background in data analysis we hope to crack the nut that is "destroy target (x) creature".

The boys go over a few listener requests this week. Chiefly what the heck you're supposed to name with Cabal Therapy and Meddling Mage! But also some chat about how we store our cards and the usual fluff.

Premodcast welcomes Gerard Siatkowski to the pod for a diverse conversation covering many topics, in particular his fondness for Korean and other foreign premodern cards, hate for foils, and some of the off-the-wall decks he likes to sleeve up (with foreign cards of course). Somehow we didn't talk about turtles, hopefully you all come for the magic conversation instead.

We welcome back premodern great Flint Espil to the pod to chat about PSS3 which he hosts with Mike Heup. Also some talk about the upcoming Premodern gauntlet which Mike will be a part of, and a top 5 of Flint's favorite set...Mirage!

And we're back! All three premodcast hosts got to meet up for the first time together at Lobstercon, they chat all about it with a particular focus on Jared's premodern FNM which he won! As well as the premodern cube that was a joy through and through along with the rest of the weekend.

Welcome listeners new and old! Thanks to the Professor at Tolarian Community College we've seen some growth in the community so we decided to give a bit of a welcoming episode. We also have an exciting pack opening!

This episode is all about the banned list, no "counters, burns, and broken things", no judge's corner, no guest, no top 5. Just the guys chatting all about the cards on the banned list. Spoiler alert this isn't a discussion about what should change, instead an analysis of what's on it, why, and how the format remains healthy because of it.

Happy hot days of summer, the boys talk all about one of the best cards in Premodern...Survival of the Fittest. Having discussed Survival-Elves, and Full English Breakfast we decided to go over the many other Survival based strategies. And we round it out with a double judge's corner. Enjoy with a cold beverage!

We've got a great one here for fans of Skull Magic. Jared and Mike breakdown the Suicide Black decks they played in the most recent Monthly with all the choices involved in constructing this surprisingly varied deck. As well as an Apocalypse top 5 to commemorate the 20th anniversary.

And we're back! For this episode the guys talk about the growing pains due to the continued success and rise of the Premodern Webcam Monthly tournaments. We discuss ways to streamline things moving forward as the numbers burgeon. Then it's on to the 25th anniversary top 5 of Alliances the second set in the Ice Age block.

It's that time again (well maybe two months late but who's counting?) for the Premodcast Meta Analysis! After many tangents and a brief Ugnought deck tech the boys go over the Premodern meta according to TCdecks starting around the hour mark. Get your accountant visors, a paper calculator, and prepare to crunch some numbers.

We welcome current reigning Premodern champ Aaron Dicks fresh off back to back first places finishes in the Easter Championship and PSS2, as well as current top of the pack in the Spring Fling. Plenty to talk about with Aaron, so get your baubles and brews ready!

We welcome Anton Glans to the show to talk about the one-day Easter Tournament he hosted. It was a resounding success with some very cool innovations in the top 8 to talk about. As well as Anton's Magic story.

The boys welcome back Robin Lundh, whose recent second place finish in the Winter Blast makes him ideally suited to talk about Full English Breakfast. One of the pillars of the format and one of the most powerful grindiest combo decks around.

Spring may be upon us but the premodcast boys are rehashing the Winter Blast! Jared's one-day tournament last month. It's also the 24th anniversary of fifth edition so we take a stroll down that particular memory lane, and a tiny fraction of a judge's corner on Humility. Enjoy!

You asked we delivered! This episode we interview Adam Rice about the Clerics deck he brewed and popularized. Don't forget about the Winter Blast this Saturday, listen/check facebook for details!

We got a big one this time! The boys discuss the recent craze in Magic's financial sector and how it relates to Premodern. Then recent 2020 Premodern Community Award winner Andrew (check the bonus episode if you haven't!) goes over his signature deck Enchantress. And round it all out with our top 5 picks for Planeshift.

Enjoy a special bonus episode listeners! Martin Berlin awarded the Premodcast's own Andrew Walker the 2020 Premodern Magic Community Award. Here is his interview with everyone's favorite Enchantress aficionado Mr. Andrew Walker.

Happy New Year everyone! The Premodcast is back with a conversation about The Solution, or Team America, Patriot aggro, Jeskai whatever you kids are calling it these days... You know, the Lightning Angel deck. As well as a discussion of Stifle and it's many unique rules conundrums.

Happy holidays listeners! The boys do a year-end review, and to fit the season an interview with Elf Expert Michael Arnold. Best wishes to all our listeners and endless gratitude for making the premodcast a success in 2020, and we'll be back in the new year!

Happy Thanksgiving! Here's a premodcast feast for your ears. We analyze the numerous archetypes that were great in their day but just don't cut it in premodern.

Happy Halloween everyone! Enjoy a special edition of the premodcast where Premodern Showdown Series champion Robin Lundh (Redrum Lundh Chaney)  joins to talk Showdown Series, Dark Ritual art, and of course ZOMBIES.

The boys open their gift, a three way crack-a-pack of Urza's Legacy. You can follow along with the video here on Andrew's stream https://www.twitch.tv/videos/784263867  Many many thanks to Gerard Siatkowski! They also discuss Aluren a very tricky and fun combo deck.

The guys are back with a late summer recap/catch-up going over their Premodern Showdown Series as well as Fall Brawl performances (or lack thereof).  As well as a new top 5 in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the release of Invasion.

The boys are back from a bit of a break with some quality Premodern content. Jared's recent even the Midsummer Revel and the group's participation in the Premodern Showdown Series fill this episode with anecdotes and jocularity.

This week the boys discuss the green machine, the history and current Premodern iteration of mono-green stompy. As well as a top 5 chronicles cards and some exciting events are plugged.

The boys welcome David Daniel champion of the June Premodern Online Monthly for a lively discussion of his awesome and unique deck. Machinehead with a Draco Burst finisher fueled by Insidious Dreams.

Clocking in at 2 hours+ we've got a jam packed episode. An interesting pick-up, along with some collection maintenance discussion, and new segment top 5 Ice Age cards! Followed by an interview with the May monthly winner Manos Kokkinis.

A lively chat about everyone's favorite card to play against, Stasis. And some discussion about the unfortunate event in last month's finals. All over a ton of fun!

Mike is back! The boys discuss a number of current event topics in Magic broadly and in our personal Magic experiences of late.They revisit the shuffling discussion from last episode then on to the deck of the day, the mighty Oath of Druids.

And we're back listeners! Jared and Andrew interview Michael Heup, host of the Spring Fling online tournament, and recent winner of the March online monthly. They discuss streaming, his beast rock deck that took down the tourney and many other premodern magic topics.

This week's episode focuses on the mighty Stiflenought archetype. The many iterations, and some relevant rules talk on Phasing. I have spoken!

Critics get your guns, we talk all about our personal preference on the many basic land options for Premodern. We also address a judge question regarding Exploration, and talk about the Folgio Portfolio Kickstarter. 

This episode we talk generally about premodern in the time of Coronavirus, then the bulk of the episode is Jared and Andrew's interview with the February monthly winner Antonio Fiscarelli, Muddy King of Mono-Brown

We crunched the numbers and cranked out an analysis of the current Premodern metagame. Buckle up for a deep dive!

This week we do a deck tech on Goblins those pesky geeba speakers, and a judge's corner about the interaction between Frantic Search and Arrogant Wurm.

This week we interview the January monthly champion Flint Espil and talk about his Angry Hermit 3.0 deck. You thought Hermit Druid was banned didn't you? We also revise last week's Judge's Corner.

Episode 2. Mike and Andrew discuss the recent Sisters of the Flame hosted Scryings tournament they attended at GP:NJ as well as Scryings and Premodern crossovers. Judge's corner topic - Man-lands.

Magnus's Blog detailing Scryings:
http://oldschool-mtg.blogspot.com/p/scryings.html

Paul DeSilva's report on the tournament:
https://medium.com/@paul.desilva/the-league-of-scrying-gentlemen-323952648e31

Premiere episode of the premodcast. Your hosts Mike Harris, Andrew Walker, and Jared Doucette introduce themselves and discuss Magic: The Gathering's most nostalgic format...Premodern.